Subject: pine IMAP version connecting to IMAP4 Netscape Mail Server

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 12:16:13 -0500

Hello,

This is probably an obvious question but my problem is as follows:

- We are running netscape MailServer on A Windows NT server.  Netscape
runs POP3 and IMAP4 along with smtp and other proto's.

- We are _trying_ to use PC Pine 3.95 (beta) to connect and download
mail from the server to both Windows 3.11 and Win95 PCs. (main goal is
Win 3.11)

- The error message I get in pine is:
([CLOSED] IMAP connection broken (server reponse))

- from the server's side the imapd reports that the USER=???? and
HOST=UNKNOWN.  These fields are correctly filled in pine setup.

****** THE QUESTION: ******
What version of IMAP is Pine 3.95 running anyway.  Or does this problem
have a totally different cause.  My guess is that there are two IMAP
versions talking but protocols are supposed to be backwards
compatible!!!!!

Any help would be great.

Thanks,
- Eamon

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From: [email-masked] (Eamon Diab)
Date: 13 Jan 1997 19:51:50 GMT

Mark Crispin ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Any version of Pine should talk to any version of IMAP server.

: The problem is that the IMAP server is closing the connection
: unexpectedly.  Without further information, it is hard to diagnose or
: debug the problem.

: What happens if you telnet to port 143 on the server?

Well, you were right.  The Netscape server was bound to a different port that the usual 143.  The next problem we ran into was pine's inability to find the folders on the server to load them.

We ended up with this project on the back burner for now.

Thank for the help Mark,  you did give us a clue.

-Eamon 

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Eamon Diab                    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate Student                        State University of New York at Buffalo
E-Mail: [email-masked]                                 Bell Hall, Rm: 251